Etosha Pan

The Etosha Pan is a large endorheic salt pan, forming part of the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin in the north of . It is a vast hollow in the ground in which water may collect or in which a deposit of salt remains after water has evaporated.
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  • Type: Pan
  • Description: big endorheic salt lake in Namibia’s north
  • Also known as: Etoscha-Pfanne” and “Etosha pan

Etosha Pan

Latitude
-18.82162° or 18° 49′ 18″ south
Longitude
16.3358° or 16° 20′ 9″ east
Elevation
1,080 metres (3,543 feet)
Open location code
5FHR58HP+98
Geo­Names ID
3357576
Wiki­data ID
Q280231
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Etosha Pan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Etoshapan
  • Azerbaijani: Etoşa
  • Basque: Etosha Pan
  • Bulgarian: Етоша (солончак)
  • Bulgarian: Етоша
  • Catalan: Etosha Pan
  • Cebuano: Etosha Pan
  • Chinese: 埃托沙鹽湖
  • Czech: pánev Etoša
  • Czech: Pánev Etoša
  • Czech: pánev Etosha
  • Esperanto: Etoŝa salebenaĵo
  • Esperanto: Etoŝa Salebeno
  • French: pan d’Etosha
  • French: Pan d’Etosha
  • Georgian: ეტოშის მლაშობი
  • German: Etosha-Pfanne
  • Italian: Praterie alofile dell’Etosha Pan
  • Japanese: エトーシャ塩湖
  • Latvian: Etoša
  • Lithuanian: Etošos duburys
  • Luxembourgish: Etosha-Pan
  • Polish: Etosza
  • Portuguese: Planície salina de Etoxa
  • Portuguese: Salar de Etosha
  • Romanian: Depresiunea Etosha
  • Russian: Этоша
  • Slovak: Etošská panva
  • Slovenian: Etoška kotanja
  • Slovenian: Ponev Etosha
  • Spanish: Cuenca de Etosha
  • Tatar: Этоша тоз күле милли паркы
  • Ukrainian: Етоша

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Uitkykplek Etosha.

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Etosha Pan”. Photo: Alchemist-hp, FAL.